CHICAGO — It is universally accepted that the 0-5 Jaguars are The Worst Team in Football. But as the Giants limp toward the Bears on Thursday night, they find themselves in the unimaginable danger of becoming the first 0-6 team in the NFL. Uneasy wears the temporary crown of Worst Team in Football.

Furthermore, an 0-6 start would put the Giants well in their way to a collapse for the ages that would rank among the franchise’s Hall of Shame seasons.

Read it and weep, Big Blue Nation:

1947: The Steve Owen Giants go the first nine weeks without a win and finish 2-8-2.

1953: Charlie Conerly throws 13 TDs and 25 INTs, and Owen is forced to resign as head coach following a 3-9 season. “It was like telling your father you’re putting him out of your home,” Giants owner Tim Mara said.

1964: Y. A. Tittle, 38 years old, throws 10 TDs and 22 INTs. Tittle and Frank Gifford retire after a 2-10-2 season. “I did not want to be a mediocre player, a player just hanging on, and I certainly was a mediocre player last year,” Tittle said.

1966: Allie Sherman, serenaded with “Goodbye Allie,” requires a police escort at Yankee Stadium at the end of a 1-12-1 season. The lowlight is a 72-41 loss at D.C. Stadium to the Redskins, who much to the delight of Sam Huff, traded away two years earlier by Sherman, call timeout with seven seconds remaining to kick a field goal. “Sure, I hear it, but not as much as you’d think,” Sherman said.

1971: Fran Tarkenton throws 11 TDs and 21 INTs during a 4-10 season and is traded back to the Vikings.

1973: Alex Webster resigns after a 2-11-1 season. “I’ve always been a winner,” Webster said. “When you pull the pieces together like we thought we had this year, when you think you have something, it’s tough to accept losing.”

1974: The 2-12 Giants lose all seven games at the Yale Bowl, including a 26-20 OT loss to the Jets in their first regular-season meeting on Nov. 10.

1976: The Giants lose their first nine games and not even moving into new Giants Stadium can save coach Bill Arnsparger. John McVay replaces him following the seventh defeat and finishes 3-11. Arnsparger finishes 7-28 as head coach. “We feel that Arnsparger left us in a much better position in every department than when he came here … everything was improved except our record,” Director of Operations Andy Robustelli said.

1977: Joe Pisarcik throws 4 TDs and 14 INTs as McVay finishes 5-9.

The Miracle at the MeadowlandsPhoto: AP

1978: The Fumble. The Miracle in the Meadowlands. Pisarcik. Herman Edwards. “15 Years of Lousy Football – – We’ve Had Enough.” McVay is fired after a 6-10 season. “I think the Giants are a much better team now than when I started,” McVay said.

1980: Ray Perkins parlays a 4-12 season into a contract extension. “You can’t measure our program in wins and losses, and I don’t believe in musical chair coaches,” GM George Young said.

1983: Bill Parcells goes 3-12-1 in an injury-ravaged rookie season marred by the deaths of both parents and aide Bob Ledbetter. He nearly loses his job to Howard Schnellenberger.

1987: Following an offseason in which six books were written, and Karl Nelson was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, the Giants started 0-2 before a players’ strike left them 0-5. Parcells, angry that Young had fielded a horrific replacement team, alienated himself from the team when the strike ended and let his assistants do the coaching, and finished 6-9. “I wanted to get their minds off the strike and onto something else,” Parcells said. “That might as well be me.”

1992: The Ray Handley nightmare ends, and GM George Young is turned down by Tom Coughlin and Dave Wannstedt before settling on Dan Reeves.

Chargers players getting pelted with snowballs.Photo: AP

1995: Disgruntled fans pelt the Chargers bench with snowballs at the end of a 5-11 season. Chargers equipment manager Sid Brooks is knocked out for 30 seconds after a snowball hit him in the face and the Giants stared at a forfeit. “That’s the way it is in society today, there’s no respect for human life,” Reeves said.

1996: The Giants blow a 22-0 halftime lead to Parcells and the Patriots at Giants Stadium to finish 6-10 in Reeves’ final game following friction with the front office. “I took this job under certain circumstances and it just hasn’t worked out the way that we all wanted it to,” Reeves said.

2003: The 4-12 Giants finish with eight straight losses, and this was Jim Fassel following a 37-24 loss at home and the end of his seven-year tenure: “I feel maybe it is a better place than when I came in. I know a lot of the older players have said that to me and that has stuck with me a lot.”

Will this Giants team rank among the worst ever?

211 turnovers,400 yards rushing in a 10 year career. 2 Super Bowl MVPs on games won by his defenses and two miracle catches and 1 Ashanti Samuel INT drop. all with a roster during that time that would make past dynasties jealous. an unathletic, one dimensional QB with a disgusting level of disregard for the football.He is about as overrated as one can be. that's why his fellow NFLers vote him as such year after year. Run,Eli,run!

Not that this is a total excuse, but when your starting running back is a reject that no team wanted even on their practice squad and your other RB is someone nobody recognizes and bottom of the depth chart, you know there are going to be major problems.

The offensive line is old and done. Justin Pugh has not been effective since his concussion and nobody knows whether it would have been different without it. Hakeem Nicks has not been good other than this past week, where he made a few plays. Wilson does show promise as a speedy back but was recently injured and needs to hold on to the ball better. JPP is most definitely not fully recovered from surgery and these things can take a full year to get back to form.

As a result of the ridiculous pressure, Eli appears to be forcing the issue too much. Hard to blame him though when the team looks like this. Cruz.... frequently it's about his getting behind the defense once or twice per game and praying that the long ball works. Randle... can be very inconsistent.

No true superstars here. Other than Eli, this team did not look great from the start. I was shocked anyone picked them to win the division. I love them but they need retooling.